Workshops & Tours for Wildlife & Nature Photography - NaturesLens - http://natureslens.co.uk - often to be found shooting with a 1DX mainly coupled to an EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x or an EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM

Workshops & Tours for Wildlife & Nature Photography - NaturesLens - http://natureslens.co.uk - often to be found shooting with a 1DX mainly coupled to an EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x or an EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM

Fantastic shot! Can you share your technical specs with us for that shot? I'd really be interested to know how you did that! Thanks.

Thanks!I hope nobody will take those posts with explanation as flooding the thread :-)

Unfortunately I have to dissapoint you - there is a lot of PP in DPP (I don't think Lightroom would do it any better) and the original photo looks very very bad.

First of all this photo is one of four in a row, which were made in continuous mode with the use of AI Servo (the rest of them included below). The camera was 5d2, 70-200 F/4 L IS @200mm, 1/1500s, F4, ISO 400. It was cloudy, 4PM in Poland two days ago, the sun about 30 degrees to the left of the duck straight ahead. So it was almost behind the duck.

The photo is heavily cropped. Below there is a full frame of this photo.

There was a lot PP in DPP. Settings used you will find below as well (+DLO +NR). The photos without editing are also included. As you can see they are so ugly, that I wouldn't bother working on them if I wouldn't like the scene which I witnessed.

The other thing is how many wonderful shots I missed there because of focus missing, light, shutter speed... In short - lack of 5D3 :-)Below - what I think I could have if there was another "I" in the camera name... And this is just a small set of bad photos made on this day.

Another thing is to make ducks landing such a beautiful way. It was tricky. If you throw some bread to the water, where there are plenty of them, they start to get it first. If they see they can get them faster than other ducks, they fly and land...

Sorry for so many posts in this thread. Below some other shots I made on this day, where I find birds with attitude as well :-)